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ground-inadjective1(Of dirt or a stain) deeply embedded and difficult to remove: uniforms covered with ground-in dirt...- You might want to power wash it to remove the ground-in dirt.
- Use a power washer to remove the concrete dust and years of ground-in grime.
- Sandrine's gaze kept wandering back to his hands - wide, capable hands with long slender fingers, still elegant somehow under a ground-in patina of oil and dirt.
1.1(Of a habit or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change: a ground-in routine, repeated grimly over and over...- It will take more than one snowfall to cleanse the ground-in corruption that's revealed when this simpatico police detective investigates the local connections to the murder of a man who owned a trucking company in Lombardy.
- As with other ground-in habits, I need to identify a way of fixing this flaw, as it is expensive.
- This idea will challenge Christians to "re-read" their own traditions, their rigid linguistic codes, their ground-in prejudices and practices.
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